30 Weeks Pregnant

7 weeks left.
49 days left.

We are getting so close that I'm almost letting myself get excited a little bit.  Just a little, though.  As we know, the wheels can fall off at any point so I will continue to remain guarded mostly until this little boy is here.

I had my 30 week appointment this week with no excitement.  I have made all of my appointments for the remainder of the pregnancy and I will start being seen twice a week beginning in two weeks at 32 weeks pregnant.  My doctor also gave me all of my files since Chris and I will be traveling this week for Thanksgiving and, God forbid, anything happens while we're out of the city.

As for this last weekend, I did some major work at our house.  I cleaned the house for the cleaning people (this drives Chris insane, but I come by it honestly), decorated for Christmas, and we painted the small portion of our deck that needed to be painted.  Thank goodness we had warm enough weather to get that done before the cold temperatures stay for good.

I'm starting to become uncomfortable.  The baby should be close to 4 lbs now and he likes to stretch out into my ribs, just like his big brother.  He's also pretty active at nighttime, making it hard for me to sleep throughout the night.  I'm sure when Nathan used to do that, I would get irritated but now I love it.  He better keep it up for the next 7 weeks! :)

As for Thanksgiving, Chris and I are again thankful this year.  Last year we were thankful that we became parents to Nathan and this year we are thankful that we've had a year to learn and grow since losing Nathan and we are BEYOND thankful that we were able to get pregnant again via IVF.  We miss Nathan terribly, but know he's looking over us and his brother.  Last year, I wrote about how when we put up our little boy angel on top of our Christmas tree that a ladybug hung out above it for a couple of hours.  Chris put the angel up last night and not even 30 minutes later, a ladybug crawls across the ceiling above the angel.  Thank God for signs, they keep our hope and memories of Nathan alive.  (And no, we don't have a bug infested house :) )

Thankful for you, our sweet angel Nathan.

29 Weeks Pregnant

8 weeks left.
56 days left.

We're getting there...

I got the results from my glucose test from last week and I passed that, which didn't come as a surprise to me.  With the holidays coming up, this made me happy so that I didn't have to completely restrict my holiday intake of food. I got my tdap shot on Thursday and got news that I didn't need another rhogam shot so I am good to go for the remainder of this pregnancy.  I also scheduled my csection for 7:30am on January 13.  I'm glad that my doctor was able to accommodate that date and I'm even happier that it's first thing in the morning.

I had a good weekend with Chris.  He travels so much for work now that I really appreciate our weekends together now.  On Friday, we went out to dinner and then went down to the Aronoff to see Once.  I absolutely loved it. On Saturday, we were successful in furniture shopping for new end tables and lamps for our family room and those get delivered the weekend following Thanksgiving. Finally, on Sunday we were able to just clean up around the house and went through all of Nathan's decorations for the year.  That boy has some serious decorations for the upcoming holidays.  We went to the cemetery and put up his Thanksgiving decorations and I went through his Christmas stuff to make sure it was not broken and we could still use it this year.

The only other thing that is going on is a lot of work.  I am so busy at work trying to meet some tight deadlines and getting financing closed and construction contracts signed before the end of the year on different projects that I am actually doing some work in the evenings and on the weekends.

Love you, Nathan.

The Worst

What a perfectly written article that was posted today.  There are no truer words.

http://stillstandingmag.com/2014/11/worse/

28 Weeks Pregnant

Third Trimester!  I breathed a sigh of relief, which only lasted a second, because then I remembered our past.

9 weeks to go.
63 days to go.

We had our monthly ultrasound this past Thursday.  Baby boy flipped and is head down (my bladder and cervix appreciate this).  He's measuring in the 63rd percentile and everything else is perfect. He was showing us how he can open and shut his mouth, but I really think he was telling me he's starving for some carbs!  I had my glucose test this morning and will find out the results later this week.  I scheduled my Tdap shot for Thursday morning.  I scheduled a normal appointment for Thanksgiving week, then I also scheduled my weekly visits, which start the week of December 8.  I will have a weekly ultrasound, non stress test, as well as an appointment with my OB.  I have a call in to the surgery scheduler to get my c-section on the schedule for January 13.

I'm ready for these next 9 weeks to fly by.  I pray that Nathan continues to keep his little brother safe until his birth.

Life

27 Weeks Pregnant

10 weeks left.
70 days to go.

We actually might make it (I'm afraid to say this out loud).

Nothing new this week.  I did clean out our closet (3 bags worth of clothes - I have a shopping problem).  I also started cleaning out the nursery closet.  I am in the process of putting all the girl clothes into a container that we can store, in case we have a girl in the future.  I was also able to make some room in the dresser by removing the girl headbands, receiving blankets, etc.  All of the boy clothes are hung in the closet, although I will not wash them until we are much, much closer to January 13.  Possibly the evening of January 12.  Not even kidding. We actually got a few new items of clothing for this baby boy this weekend.  We picked up a little brother onesie and this baby got the outfit with the bow tie from his Aunt Julie for Halloween.  Super cute.  I packed away all of my summer maternity clothes, because including maternity clothes, I now dominate our walk in closet as well as the oversized closet in our guest bedroom.  Too much stuff.

Baby is doing good, as far as I know.  We have our ultrasound this Thursday and I'm interested to see how he's positioned now.  I feel body parts all over so I'm not sure if he keeps switching or I just have no idea what body parts are poking out where.  He should weigh over 2.5 lbs this week, but we'll see how my diet is impacting his size.

Here's a picture of Nathan's grave from Halloween.  I'm sure he had a good one up in Heaven.

Miss you, buddy.